Battle of Gaugamela: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia. It was a decisive victory for the Hellenic League and led to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire.
made the mistake of reading up about Alexander the Great’s relationship with his best friend Hephaestion and learnt that he was kind of a drama queen because
after Hephaestion died, he spent maybe 1.5 billion dollars on his funeral which is a conservativeestimate
spent all night weeping over the body until they dragged him away
extinguished a light only reserved to signify the death of the king (i.e. himself, Alexander the Great)
went to the oracle and petitioned to have Hephaestion granted the status of a god but was denied
nine months later, was still planning expensive monuments dedicated to his pal, except then he died, so what can you do
people say the only thing that ever defeated Alexander the Great was Hephaestion’s thighs
Perhaps the only physical evidence of Alexanders the Great’s journey through India is in the form of a victory sign his army made while journeying back to Macedonia. It’s on a mountain side in Las Bela Baluchistan, Pakistan.
